The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-10-20
AFRAID OF TIE KAzzD4-DAgzLE
The Republicans Getting More and More
Desperate.

AFRAID OF PHE kAHZL,A-DA5z 5zl,H
The Republicans Getting More and More
Desperate.
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 14.-[Special.
AS the campaign progresses Cne Re
publican politicians of Chic are getting
more and more desperate, as is shown
Dy their lying, falcllication and slander
OF Democrats and Democratic candi-
oates, and bringing into the State the
most desperate and unscrupulous poll
tlclans TO make speeches, to be tuund
anywhere. But tine most desperate and
INSCRIPTIONS among them all is 'little
DreecheS' or skin cane" Foraker. His
unscrupulOusneSS and desperation is
SHOWN at every place that he opens that
mouth OF his. In some parts of the
state he tells his audiences that the
DOW law is Just the thing for the liuuCr
selling; that it gives them protection IN
their business and makes it respectab q.
In strong temperance or prohibition
localities he tells his hearers that the
present Dow law was gotten up for the
purpose of entirely eXterminatinp the
liquor selling and liquor drinking bust.
ness, and that it would have been made
much stronger for the purpose of ac-
cOmplishing that object than it is, if it
had not been tor losing d large pul ton
of the Republican vote in Hamilton
and CuyahOga counties, and the large
cities and towns in other parts of the
State.
There is one thing our Democratic
friends in all parts of the State NAV de.
pend upon, and that is this: The Re.
publicans have all the money they need
to carry on their campaign with, and if
they want more John Shern an has
provided to raise it for them, from the
same source he raised for them Wnat
they now haVe-the large distIllers and
wholesale liquor dealers of Hamilton
county. The Republicans are deter
inlheu 10 carry ONO this year, and if
the process OF poodle" ana the cOloniZ-
ing OF voters into close or doubtful
counties, to carry the Legislature, will
accomplish that end. Besides the mon
ey that John Sherman has and will
raise for them, their State Executive
Committee has made upon each Repub-
llcan holding State Office or position
OF any kind, an assessment of three per
cent. in their salaries, and which they
are compelled to pay OF lose their posi-
tions. Their colonization of voters
into strong Republican localities and
also Representative or Senatorial dis
tricts, has been carried on very exten-
slVely and on very large scale during
the past ten days, and will contin
ue tor several days longer. But
their distribution of "bOodle" and
cOlonizing of voters will not save them.
The people of OhiO-the majority of the
honest, intelligent and thinking portion
of its voters have determined to let
skin cane" Foraker retire ON the second
Monday of next January, and also have
a Legislature which will not appro-
pirate $3WO,0OO to run the State Tor a
single year, when the entire revenue of
the State only brings to the State Treas
ury in that time $z,7OO,U0. The fates
this year are against that party, and it
cannot overcome them Ever since the
Republican party was organized the
people of OHIO have always elected
| Legislature and a Governor of the Dem
OcratiC faith in the year in which they
are elected which has Il
FIGURE IN IT.
Look at the figures: The Republican
party was organized in 1855. In 1857
i
both branches of the Legislature. and
that noble Democrat, Henry b. Payne.
would have been declared elected Gov
enOr OF Ohio had the returns from
those Republican StrOnghOlds, Athens
and Meigs counties, been received be
fore they were dOCtoTed, and all the vote
of the State heard from days before they
were. In 1857 the Democrats elected a
L n; ifx,iyN IA4l,
ture, and that nOblest "Roman of them
al" Allen &. Thurman. would have been
declared elected Governor, had not the
vote i'll strong Republican townships
and wards IN the different parts of the
State, where only Republicans were on
the election boards, again been doctored.
In 1877, which had two figure rs in it,
and after the Democratic Legislature
elected in 1869 had passed a law that
every election board should be repre-
sented by members of both political
| parties, we all reCollect how that grand
Democrat and excellent Christian gen
tleman, Richard NJ. Bishop. was elected
Governor of Ohio. defeating the ablest
| Republican in the State, William II.
West, and a Democratic Legislature
was also elected. Does any person sup
pose, or is any one foolish enough to
believe that this present year of 1887
| will be different from 1857, 1867 or 1877 ?
If he does he needs to be bored for the
political simples complaint that is
becoming contagious among the aver
age ignorant Republican politician who
is silly enough to talk about Skin
Cane" Foraker going to have 10000 to
5000 majority on the Sth day of next
November. Foraker will not be
elected then, neither will Republican
Legislature. What the fates have de-
termined il is foolish for poodle polite
ians of the Bill Capelar and skin
| cane" Foraker variety to try and over
come. The lying of the Fred. Musseys
| and his partners in that kind of poiit.
ical campaigning; the money raised by
John Sherman from the wholesale liG
uor dealers and distillers of Cincinnati:
the large assessments made on the Re
publican State officeholders of eyery
kind; the boiler plate" of lies, false
hoods and ISLANDERS furnished to the Re
publican papers of the State by Bill Ca
pellar from his Cincinnati foundry. at
big profit to Capellar; and the non
sensical talk of "skin cane" Foraker
and his imported speakers, will not
save the Republican party of Ohio i'm
1888. They are bound to go under in
1887; and go under they will on the 9Th
day of November 1887. N.